Joseph Pigato is the Managing Director of Sparked. Joseph is based in San Francisco and has lived and worked in Singapore, India, England, Australia, and South Africa. Recruiting, interviewing and hiring staff overseas can be an adventure. There’s amazing talent across the globe, but finding it, discerning the best candidates and making a successful hire that works out can be a roll of the dice. Getting burned, on the other hand, is easy. Bad hires are common, as are disaster stories. It’s a matter of inexperience hiring abroad and not understanding nuances and idiosyncrasies of the country and culture you’re navigating. Here are...

Dr. Liraz Margalit is the Customer Experience Psychologist at ClickTale. Arriving home after a long day at the office spent almost entirely in front of the computer, you take off your shoes, make yourself a drink and, ironically, sit in front of your computer again. It’s incredible how many of us choose to communicate with others through social media channels like Facebook and Twitter rather than speaking directly with the people we share our homes with. In fact, when we sit with our laptops and chat with friends, we feel we are relaxing and escaping from our daily grind into...

Odes Roberts is an in-house designer for Shutterstock. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. The work of artist and designer Chuck Anderson (aka NoPattern) is a fantastic example of how to combine photography, light effects and color harmony to come up with bright, vivid images with an undeniable sense of individuality. Anderson’s work has been widely recognized by many, and has earned him commissions from brands including Nike, Reebok, ESPN and Microsoft. He also has a podcast called Life + Limb that’s always worth a listen. We caught up with the artist to ask a few questions...